[AccessD] New Language

 > It sounds like your daughter has a very rare disease and her life will be very challenged.

Allie has Williams Region Duplication Syndrome.  The Williams Region was discovered back in the 60s 
when it was determined that some people had a genetic deletion - mission part of that gene.

Doctors have been able to find genetic deletions since the 60s apparently, and always suspected that 
where there is a deletion there is a weak point in the gene and that probably there would be 
duplications - perhaps in the same numbers as deletions.  However they didn't have the tools to 
*find* or see the duplications.  About 5 years ago they they started creating such tools.

Allie was about the 40th person in the United States and about the 100th world wide that was 
*diagnosed* with this duplication syndrome, however the doctors suspect that there are many more 
that are just undiagnosed.

And yes, her life will be challenging for sure.  What she has going for her is that she is cheerful 
by nature, quite cute and everyone loves her.  She just has that effect on everyone around her. 
That will get her a long way in life.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 4/11/2011 6:07 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> It sounds like your daughter has a very rare disease and her life will be
> very challenged. It does appear that she is growing up in the best
> environment and will be able to reach her full potential. It seems that she
> has achieved a great deal and has an almost gifted ability with computers.
>
> Your little scientist sounds like he is off to a great start and with you as
> his father his success is assured.
>
> Now I had better watch out for the Off Topic police...;-)
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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>
> My daughter Allie will turn 8 in June.  She has a genetic duplication
> meaning that she has 2 copies
> of a section of one gene.  Bad news, it causes low intellectual functioning
> - IQ ~ 70, speech
> apraxia, general muscle planning problems etc.
>
> But Allie knows how to use the computer.  She cannot type (or read very well
> yet) but she can play
> her games, gets on YouTube and watches videos, she can navigate the
> interface for the Windows 7
> video center etc.  Her teachers are amazed at her computer skills.
>
> Her favorite thing in all the world is to do the scanning of our stuff at
> checkout at the grocery
> store.  :)
>
> She has most of the checkers wrapped around her finger. ;)
>
> Robbie OTOH is a marginally gifted little guy, very bright.  A little
> scientist / engineer, loves
> anything in that area of knowledge.  With luck he will be a doctor and
> support me in my old age.  ;)
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> On 4/11/2011 3:58 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>> My daughters have all grown up with computers. From childhood, their rooms
>> have been wired for computers...coax cable and all. My oldest daughter
>> learned to type on the keyboard before she could talk. She would sit in my
>> lap and enter the keys as I called them out. She could start up the
>> Commodore 64 and load games from memory.
>>
>> My youngest daughter made her first web site when she was ten, a
> Sailor-moon
>> site. ;-) At that time she used notepad to build her site and she knew
> more
>> about web sites and HTML coding than I did.
>>
>> Today, both my daughters are married or in a long term relationship with
>> programmers (both with a least one degree in computer science) and they
> all
>> work in the business; one in computer graphic designer (and fashion
> design)
>> and two in animation and one as an application developer but if pushed the
>> girls are both pretty good programmers (At the age of 15 my oldest
> daughter
>> was short-listed in a job competition and the company sent her their whole
>> software line as a consolation...It was Blizzard software with Warcraft
>> etc.)
>>
>> The one I feel sorry for is my wife Maria who totally non-computer
> literate
>> and has to listen to rest of the family talk shop and coding etc. at ever
>> family gathering.
>>
>> I really hope your wife likes computers. ;-)
>>
>> Jim